Link Building Four
Posted by Pixelhead
This is the fourth post in my link building series, although the last one in the series was done in March in the Niche Directory post. Not much new in the link building scene. Directories continue to play a role in many link building campaigns. 
But as noted in a previous article about the many crappy directories that seem to be growing in numbers, quality directories do exist, and should be sought after and used.
Here are some tips for link building with directories.
Tip #1 Very your titles frequently- If the keyword I am using is “Link Building”, the phrase and only the keyword phrase should be used in the title at one time. Don’t submit a title with more than one keyword phrase. For example, I would not submit a title like “Link Building for Search Engine Optimization” more than one or two times for variation, because it uses the two keyword phrases “link building” and Search Engine Optimization”.
Variations that I might use more frequently include:
- Link Building | url(use the entire http://www…domain)
- url | Link Building
- Link Building from url
- Domain name - Link Building
- Link Building - Domain name
- Stop words* can also be used occasionally for variation - for example- Want Link Building?
Tip#2 Build links to your links. Ok, your site is listed in a directory, but Google and the other search engines are not caching the page. What do you do? You get some links to your category pages. This can be as simple as submitting the category page where your link is listed to a handful of directories.
Tip#3 Build a free weblog for nothing but listing your directory links to your site. Be sure to submit the Feed to the major directories. In addition to helping to get those links cached, often times your linking weblog can be used as a form of three way linking for sites that are involved in reciprocal linking.
Tip#4 Click on your Link- Many directories sort submissions by hits, and often times it is only the first page of a category that is cached(listed) in the SERP’s(Search Engine Results Page), so therefore the sites with the most hits will be on the first page and many times this will be 1 or two hits. So when your site gets into a directory, visit the category page your site is listed on and actually click on your link.
Thats it for Link Building Four, if you have any questions or have some other area of SEO that I or my associates maybe able to cover, please let us know.
Some other SEO Blogs that I recommend:
- Darin CC
- Matt Cutts blog
- Search Engine Watch blog
*Stop words, like the word “Want” are words that the Search Engines(Google) ignores. Read this Search Engine Watch post about Stop Words for more info about them, and here is a nice list of Stop words.
Written by Pixelhead on August 6th, 2007 with
8 comments.
Read more articles on Link Building and Marketing and SEM and SEO and Uncategorized.
My StumbleUpon Page
#1. August 8th, 2007, at 3:32 AM.
Some good tips here. I like the idea of clicking on your links, it’s a good point. Personally, I get so sick of submitting to directories that have no value that I probably ignore some good ones.